Derek Bok Quotes

Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.

Derek Bok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1930

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The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went on for centuries against African-Americans. That process of reparations, and a truth and reconciliation discussion, was extremely helpful in the country of Germany, and we need to have that here.

Jill Stein

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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

Jo Brand

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Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful.

Jennifer Armintrout

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I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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The past relationship with Simpson no longer exists, and my views on that subject have already been expressed.

Robert Kardashian

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Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work.

Steve Breen

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It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

Steven Wright

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In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

Mireille Mathieu

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I want to win so bad, but I think I've had too much of that lore for attraction that you'll do anything possible to get it. Sometimes people are there at a good time and kind of stumble upon it. Right time, right place type thing. I just want to keep working toward it with my mind and my body.

Jason Day

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Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Jay Griffiths

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I don't get it when girls say 'I'm fine' but don't mean it.

Conor Maynard

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People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

Bob Cousy

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